Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-084
Advisory Released Date: 2025-07-30
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-09-08
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: don't drop extent_map for free space inode on write error (CVE-2024-26726)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.." (CVE-2025-37938)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY (CVE-2025-37945)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
genirq/msi: Store the IOMMU IOVA directly in msi_desc instead of iommu_cookie (CVE-2025-38062)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown() (CVE-2025-38064)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: uartlite: register uart driver in init (CVE-2025-38262)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bcache: fix NULL pointer in cache_set_flush() (CVE-2025-38263)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (CVE-2025-38350)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing (CVE-2025-38386)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/gt: Fix timeline left held on VMA alloc error (CVE-2025-38389)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN (CVE-2025-38393)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port() (CVE-2025-38399)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: Clean up /proc/net/rpc/nfs when nfs_fs_proc_net_init() fails. (CVE-2025-38400)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it (CVE-2025-38403)
Affected Packages:
kernel
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update kernel or yum update --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-084 to update your system.
System reboot is required in order to complete this update.
aarch64:
kernel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-headers-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
perf-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
perf-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
python-perf-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
python-perf-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-devel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
bpftool-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
bpftool-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-devel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.aarch64
kernel-livepatch-5.15.187-130.192-1.0-0.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
kernel-headers-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.i686
src:
kernel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.src
x86_64:
kernel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-headers-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
perf-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
perf-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
python-perf-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
python-perf-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-devel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
bpftool-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
bpftool-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-5.15.187-130.192.amzn2.x86_64
kernel-livepatch-5.15.187-130.192-1.0-0.amzn2.x86_64
2025-09-08: CVE-2025-38399 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38350 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38389 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38400 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38386 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38262 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38403 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38263 was added to this advisory.
2025-08-26: CVE-2025-38393 was added to this advisory.